Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama - Page 301by Walter Scott - 1887 - 403 pagesFull view - About this book
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride or in presumption. Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog...hag or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
| John Milton - Illustration of books - 1858 - 106 pages
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblenched majesty, Be it not done in pride or in presumption. Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog...hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 pages
...horrid shades, And gawning dens where glaring monsters house, She may pass on, ete. 432. Nag more, no evil thing that walks by night, In fog, or fire, by lake, or mwrie fen, Blue wrinkled hag, ete. 448. That wise Minerva wore, aeternal [unvanquish'd] virgin. 452.... | |
| John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, 430 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say, no evil thing that walks by night In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magick chains at Curfeu time, 435 No goblin, or... | |
| John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pages
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, +30 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say, no evil thing that walks by night, In fog...hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
| John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...horrid shades. She may pass on with unblench'd majesty Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog,...hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
| John Milton - 1863 - 140 pages
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, 430 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog...hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
| John Milton - English poetry - 1863 - 140 pages
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, 430 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog...hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
| John Milton, John Hunter - 1864 - 110 pages
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblenched majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say, no evil thing that walks by night, In fog...hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
| Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1911 - 510 pages
...changed into bestial shapes (Comus 50, 695 ; Endymion III 500). And the passage in Comus 432 — 3 : "no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen" may have been present in Keats's memory when he wrote of "the fog-born elf Whose flitting lantern,... | |
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